General Information-------------------The 18th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies -Ada-Europe 2013 will take place in Berlin, Germany. Following itstraditional style, the conference will span a full week, including,from Tuesday to Thursday, three days of parallel scientific, technicaland industrial sessions, along with parallel tutorials and workshopson Monday and Friday.

Schedule--------12 December 2012: Submission of regular papers, tutorial and workshop proposals (FIRM deadline)14 January 2013: Submission of industrial presentation proposals11 February 2013: Notification of acceptance to all authors10 March 2013: Camera-ready version of regular papers required11 May 2013: Industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop material required

Topics------The conference has successfully established itself as an internationalforum for providers, practitioners and researchers into reliablesoftware technologies. The conference presentations will illustratecurrent work in the theory and practice of the design, developmentand maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for avariety of application domains. The program will allow ample timefor keynotes, Q&A sessions, panel discussions and social events.Participants will include practitioners and researchers representingindustry, academia and government organizations active in the promotionand development of reliable software technologies.

To mark the completion of the Ada 2012 standard revision process,contributions are sought that discuss experiences with the revisedlanguage.

Topics of interest to this edition of the conference include but arenot limited to:

- Experiences with Ada and its Future: New Language Features, Implementation and Use Issues; Positioning in the Market and in Education; where should Ada stand in the Software Engineering Curriculum; Lessons Learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics.

Call for Regular Papers-----------------------Authors of regular papers which are to undergo peer reviewfor acceptance are invited to submit original contributions.Paper submissions shall be in English, complete and notexceeding 14 LNCS-style pages in length. Authors shouldsubmit their work via the EasyChair conference system(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae13).The format for submission is solely PDF. For any remainingquestions, please contact a Program Co-Chair.

Proceedings-----------The conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes inComputer Science (LNCS) series by Springer, and will be available atthe start of the conference. The authors of accepted regular papersshall prepare camera-ready submissions in full conformance with theLNCS style, not exceeding 14 pages and strictly by March 10, 2013.For format and style guidelines authors should refer to the followingURL: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure tocomply and to register for the conference by that date will preventthe paper from appearing in the proceedings.

The conference is ranked class A in the CORE ranking, is among thetop quarter of CiteSeerX Venue Impact Factor, and listed in DBLP,SCOPUS and the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation index,among others.

Awards------Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper andthe best presentation.

Call for Industrial Presentations---------------------------------The conference also seeks industrial presentations which delivervalue and insight, but may not fit the selection process forregular papers. Authors of industrial presentations are invited tosubmit an overview (at least 1 full page in length) of the proposedpresentation by January 14, 2013, via the EasyChair conference system(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae13). The IndustrialCommittee will review the proposals and make the selection. Theauthors of selected presentations shall prepare a final short abstractand submit it by May 13, 2013, aiming at a 20-minute talk. The authorsof accepted presentations will be invited to submit correspondingarticles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will hostthe proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For anyfurther information please contact the Industrial Chair directly.

Call for Tutorials------------------Tutorials should address subjects that fall within the scope of theconference and may be proposed as either half- or full-day events.Proposals should include a title, an abstract, a description of thetopic, a detailed outline of the presentation, a description of thepresenter's lecturing expertise in general and with the proposedtopic in particular, the proposed duration (half day or full day),the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, oradvanced), the recommended audience experience and background, and astatement of the reasons for attending. Proposals should be submittedby e-mail to the Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-daytutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration as wellas a fee for every paying participant in excess of 5; for half-daytutorials, these benefits will be accordingly halved. The Ada UserJournal will offer space for the publication of summaries of theaccepted tutorials.

Call for Workshops------------------Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may beproposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, tobe scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposalsshould be submitted to a Conference Co-Chair. The workshop organizershall also commit to preparing proceedings for timely publication inthe Ada User Journal.

Call for Exhibitors-------------------The commercial exhibition will span the three days of the mainconference. Vendors and providers of software products and servicesshould contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowingsuitable planning of the exhibition space and time.

Grants for Reduced Student Fees-------------------------------A limited number of sponsored grants for reduced fees is expected tobe available for students who would like to attend the conference ortutorials. Contact a Conference Co-Chair for details.